The Ukrainian military managed to bring back two Ukrainian marines from the temporarily occupied territories.

The marines were saved due to a special operation, according to Ihor Kopytin, People’s Deputy of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine.

“Friends, these past days there was one more release from captivity, which was not written about. As a result of a complex special operation, it was possible to return two marines, one of whom was wounded, from the temporarily occupied territory of Ukraine. Now the guys are in safe at one of the bases of the Ukrainian Navy,” said the People’s Deputy.

According to the deputy, the operation was carried out with the involvement of a special rescue unit with the support of the Coordination Headquarters for the Treatment of Prisoners of War.

“The special operation was carried out by a unit called Angels for a considerable number of successful rescue operations. “I had the honor of assisting in the implementation of some of the operations of the Angels as a representative of the Coordination Headquarters for the Treatment of Prisoners of War and a member of the specialized Committee of the Verkhovna Rada on National Security and Intelligence,” Kopytin wrote on his page.

The video shows the transition of marines dressed in Russian uniforms to the Ukrainian side of the contact line and their meeting with the armed forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

Preliminary exchange of prisoners

As previously reported, on December 1, another prisoner exchange between Ukraine and Russia took place. 50 people returned home.

The head of the President’s Office reported on his social networks about the return of the defenders of Mariupol and Azovstal, those captured in the Donetsk, Luhansk and Zaporizhzhia regions.

The exchange is the result of the work of the Coordination Headquarters for the Treatment of Prisoners of War.